Packet dispensing device



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Feb. 5, 1935.

' A. E. ISCHINGER 1,989,806

PACKET DISPENS ING DEVICE Filed Jan. 15, 1933 2 sheets-sheet? IN V EN TOR.

Patented Feb. 5, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PACKET DISPENSHNG DEV'JICE Application January 13,

5 Claims.

This invention relates to a new packet display and dispensing device particularly adapted for use in connection with packaged articles, such as shoe-laces and the like, and to a novel blank from which the same is formed.

In order to facilitate merchandising shoe-laces, it has been found desirable to package the same in pairs, and to put a definite number of such packets in display containers for the convenience of the retail trade. Heretofore, such containers were provided in the form of cardboard boxes having openings covered with translucent or transparent material through which the shoelace packets could be seen; the packets being wthdrawable, one by one, either through one of the i'iapped ends of the box, or through a reduced opening which necessitated flexing or bending of the packets and usually caused disturbance of the orderly stacked arrangement of the packets Within the container.

Some of the objects of my invention are, to provide a novel and simple display and dispensing device of this general type in which the above mentioned detrimental features are eliminated; to provide means therein whereby the individual shoe-lace packets are successively positioned to facilitate direct inspection and longitudinal withdrawal from the container; and to form such a container from a novel flat blank of material.

The invention comprises the display and dispensing device for shoe-lace packets and the like, having the novel elements, features of construction and arrangement of parts in cooperative relationship as hereinafter more fully set forth; and the novel blank from which the device is formed.

Other objects and attendant advantages will become readily apparent from the following detailed description of several embodiments of my invention illustratedin the accompanying drawings, in which: v

Figure lis a perspective View of my novel container and dispensing device, partly broken away to illustrate certain means adapted to partially and successively p-roject the shoe-lace packets therefrom.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the device shown in Fig. 1, taken as indicated by the arrows 2-2 on said figure, and shows the same supported in normal position, ready for use.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional View taken as indicated by the arrows 3 3 on Fig. l, and shows a packet of shoe-laces projectedly positioned to permit ready inspection, and withdrawal. from the container.

1933, Serial No. 651,531

(Cl. 20G-44) Fig. 4 is a sectional view, similar to Fig. 3, but of a modified form of my invention and shows the lower sections of two adjacent walls of the container cut away to facilitate gripping and withdrawing a packet of shoe-laces longitudinally l,5 from the container.

Fig. 5 shows a flat blank form from which the container of Figs. 1, 2 and 3 is produced.

Figs. 6 and 7 illustrate, on an enlarged scale, different modifications of a certain cam abutment-member forming part of my invention.

Referring to the drawings, the shoe-lace display and dispensing device 10, indicated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, comprises a packet container including a rear wall 11, provided at its upper end with an extension 11a having therein an aperture 11b for suspending the device in upright position, as by a nail 12; a front wall 13 having therein one or more inspection windows or openings 14; a sheet of transparent material 22, such as Cellophane and the like, secured to the inside of front wall 13 for closing the openings 14; side walls l5 and 15a; a bottom closure member 16; a closure flap 1'7 at its upper end; a cam-abutment member 18 positioned to coact with shoe-lace packets 19; and a packetdischarge opening 21 in side wall 15.

The'shoe-lace packets 19 comprise shoe-laces 19a and 1917 suitably secured together by a wrapper 19e, which preferably extends around the central portion of the packet so that the merchandise is exposed at the ends thereof, the whole constituting an unwrapped, or partially wrapped, elongated, flexible unit.

The device 10 is lled by inserting the individual packets 19 through the upper openable end of the container, the ap 1'7 is then closed and the device is uprightly positioned in accordance with Fig. 2 by suspending it from the nail 12 secured in a wall or other support 23. When so posi- 40 tioned, the weight of the upper packets 19 is imposed on the lowermost packet. Pressure exerted upon this packet causes end 19e thereof to Vcoact with the inclined surface 18a of cam abutment 18 (see Fig. 3,) whereby motion is imparted to 45 this packet causing it to move longitudinally a limited distance relative to the next adjacent packet. Packet end 19f will then issue from device 10 through discharge opening 21 and project a short distance therebeyond. The limit of movement is reached when end 19e reaches the bottom of incline 18a of cam abutment 18, and the lowermost packet 19 assumes the position clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 3. When this position is reached the packet end 19f projects from ieo device 10 suiiiciently to readily permit direct inspection of the shoe-laces 19a and 19D, and manual engagement of the packet 19 for removal by longitudinal movement, as indicated by the arrow in Fig. 3.

When the lowermost packet 19 is withdrawn through discharge opening 21, the next adjacent packet'19 coactswith cam-abutment 18, and its end is automatically issued through discharge opening 21, as previously set forth, and this coaction between shoe-lace packets 19 and camabutment 18 automatically continues whenever a packet is removed from device 10, until finally but one packet remains which in turn is similarly partially projected, or issues, from'device 10 inasmuch as it is of suicient weight to efectthe desired coaction with cam-abutment member 18.

Fig. 4 illustrates a modified form of the invention, the parts corresponding to those'of the de'-N vice shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 being indicated by corresponding reference numerals. In this instance, however, the abutment member 18 of the previously described construction is omitted from the device 10 so that the shoe-lace packets 19 simply come to rest on the bottom member 16, and all the packets are constantly maintained in aligned stacked relationship with respect to eachv other. To facilitate withdrawal of the lowermost packet, the discharge opening 21 is enlarged by extending it along the rear wall 11, as at 21a, a suitable distance, and rendered of sufficient height to permit ready grasping of the packet end 19f. H p

VBoth of the described forms of my novel Vdevice may be formed from a at blank 25, shown in Fig. 5,7,and of material suchras cardboard and the like.V The blank is stamped or punched in a blanking operation, singly or in multiples, and has a configuration in accordance with the outline described bythe solid lines; the dot-and-dash lines 25aindicating the lines of folding.. 'I'he blank 25'comprises a rear-wall part 30, which is Vconnected to a front wall part 31, by a bottom part 32. Rear wall part 30 has integrally formed `,therewith side wall parts 30a and 30h, the iormer ending above part 32 and the latter 'havingA an extension or tab 33 extending therebeyond which is severed from parts 32 and 30 bya cut 34. Front rwall part 31is provided with one or more openings 35 and 4has integrally formed therewith a `closure iiap,V member 31a and side Wall parts 31h and 31C; parts 31h and 30d ending at equi-distant points from part 32, thereby providing a notch 40 in the Aleft blank edge which forms the discharge opening 2 1 of the finished container 10. Flap members 31d and 31e'are provided at the ends of kparts 31band 31e and the latter has its Yopposite end terminating at the bottom forming part 32 of the container.

Beforefolding the blank 25 along the dot-anddash lines 25a, a piece of transparent or translucent material, suoh as Cellophane or the like,

vis secured to the front wall part 31 of the blank to `close the windows or openings 33 therein. In constructing the device of Figs. l, 2'and 3, the blank 25 is folded along the dot-and-dash lines 25a whereupon the parts 30a and 3027 form the inner, and parts 31b,'31c the outer portions of side walls 15 and 15a of the device 10; and parts 30, 31 and 32form the rear, front and bottom .thereof respectively.

It should be noted that the cam-abutment member 18 ,is integrally formed with the containerl in that kthe extension or tab 33 on the side strip 30b'0f the blank 25 is bent inwardly toposition the same across the bottom right hand corner of the container 10; the extension part 33a being bent under to rest on bottom member 16 to which it may be secured with adhesiv material if desired.

The cam-abutment 18 may also be separately formed of a solid right triangular shaped piece of material such as wood, asV shown at 36in Fig. 7, and willfunction equally .well if constructed of a strip of suitable exible material, shaped as vshown at 37 in Fig. 6,' the bent ends 37a and 37b of the latter being secured to side wall 15a and bottom part 16 of the inside lower right hand corner of the device 10.

. Although the device has been shown as designed for suspension from a support, it may be supported in othersuitable ways; its packet feeding action notY being changed so long as it is maintained in an upright position. It is also to be understood that the device specifically shown and described can be'modied in various ways without departing from the-invention herein disclosed, and hereinafter claimed.

I claim:

l. A dispensing device, for elongated exible packets, formed `from a blank including integral front and rear wall parts and any intermediate bottom part, and `opposite side wall vparts on each of said front and rear wall parts, one of the side wall parts of each of said rear and front wall parts at one side of the blank being cut away at a point short of said bottom part to provide a cut-out opposite the'latter, said front and rear Wall parts being foldedy toward each other and bottom part, and opposite side wallparts on yeach of saidfront and rear wall parts, one ofthe `said wall parts of `eachY of f said rear Vand front wall parts at oneside of the blank being cut away at a' point short of said `bottom part to provide 'agout-out opposite the latter, said front and rear'wall parts being folded toward each other' and the pairs of side wall portions at each side being inturned and secured one to another to form the body ofthe packet, said cut-out portions thereby forming a side wall packet dischargeV opening, one of the opposite side Wall portions including a tab portion kextending ktoward said discharge opening and being arranged to constitute .an inclined packet actuating cam member, and -an extension on the free end of tom part of the dispensing device.

3. A dispensing device comprising a sheet-material receptacle having integral front, rear and bottom-wall portions and opposite side-wall elements on each of the front and rear portions, one of which on each of the front and rear portions at one side of the receptacle is shorter'adjacent to the bottom than the corresponding ele'- ments at the other side to provide a discharge Asaid tab portion adapted to be secured to the botopening, and one ofY the elements atV said other side of which includes an inclinedtab by which an article in the receptacle is deflected toward the discharge opening.

4. A device, for dispensing a plurality of elongated articles arranged side-by-side in substantially the form of a flat rectangular panel, comprising a sheet-material receptacle substantially conforming to said panel for mounting with the articles therein in horizontal position parallel to the bottom or" the receptacle disposed one above another, the receptacle having parallel-plane front and rear Walls holding the articles in said position on a bottom wall operatively integrally joining said front and rear walls, and opposite side-Wall elements operatively integrally joined to each of said front and rear walls, one of which on each of the front and rear walls at one side of the receptacle adjacent to corresponding ends of the articles is shorter adjacent to the bottom wall than the corresponding elements at the other side of the receptacle to provide an opening for discharging the articles lengthwise one at a time, and one of the elements at said other side of which includes an operatively integral inclined tab by which an article in the receptacle is deected lengthwise into said opening to have one end protrude therefrom by engagement of its other end with said tab and the urge of its own weight or the weight of one or more of the other articles thereon.

5. A device, for dispensing a plurality of elongated articles arranged side-by-side in substantially the form of a flat rectangular panel, comprising a sheet-material receptacle substantially conforming to said panel for suspension from a top extension with which the rear Wall of the receptacle is provided with the articles in horizontal position parallel to the bottom of the receptacle therein disposed one above another behind a Window with which the front wall of the receptacle is provided, the receptacle having parallel-plane front and rear Walls holding the articles in said position on a bottom Wall operatively integrally joining said front and rear walls, and opposite side-wall elements operatively integrally joined to each of said front and rear walls, one of which on each of the front and rear Walls at one side of the receptacle adjacent to corresponding ends of the articles is shorter adjacent to the bottom wall than the corresponding elements at the other side of the receptacle to provide an opening for discharging the articles lengthwise one at a time, and one of the elements at said other side of which includes an operatively integral inclined tab by which an article in the receptacle is deflected lengthwise into said opening to have one end protrude therefrom by engagement of its other end with said tab and the urge of its own weight or the weight of one or more of the other articles thereon.

ALFRED E. ISCHINGER. 

